MIT’s Most Stylish: 2013 Edition
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It's official: MIT is a pretty stylish place. For the second year a row, The Boston Globe named two MITers among the 25 Most Stylish Bostonians: Jessica Rosenkrantz '05 and School of Architecture + Planning Dean Adèle Naudé Santos.
The eighth annual list, compiled by The Globe's Style Magazine staff, aims to pinpoint Greater Boston's chic elite. Honorees are chosen based on a non-scientific method of "staring at people at parties, gossiping with hairdressers, and asking previous Most Stylish Bostonians."
Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg '08 founded Nervous System, a design studio that uses computer simulation to create art and jewelry based on patterns and processes found in nature."My background is in biology and architecture, and while I appreciate fashion, I never thought I would be in the industry. We write software that generates designs, and jewelry is a convenient way to monetize our work."
According to The Globe, Naudé Santos takes the same approach to solving design problems as she does to choosing a wardrobe: practical and pragmatic.
"I really believe in timeless style so that there’s no date on it. I never attempt to be fashionable in the true sense of the word. The clothes I buy I can wear for 20 years. I can just recycle them."Rosenkrantz and Naudé Santos are at least the seventh and eighth MITers to be named among Boston's most stylish. Past honorees include:
- Media Lab Assistant Professor Neri Oxman PhD ’10 (2012)
- MIT List Visual Arts Center Director Paul Ha (2012)
- Media Lab Associate Professor Cynthia Lynn Breazeal SM ’93, ScD ’00 (2011)
- Assistant Professor of Literature Alisa Braithwaite (2010)
- Visual Arts Center curator João Ribas (2009)
- Department of Architecture Associate Professor Larry Sass SM ’94, PhD ’00 (2008)
Related: MIT's Most Stylish—2012 Edition